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No. 326,389. Patented Sept. 15, 1885.

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\VILLIAMTI. BONNELL, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

TICKET-PUNCH.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 326,389, dated September 15, 1885.

(X0 model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern;

Be it known that I, WILLIAM H. BONNELL, of St. Louis, Missouri, have made a new and useful Improvement in Ticket Punches, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The improvement relates, mainly, to the throw-plate of the punch, its construction and mode of attachment.

The annexed drawings, making part of this specification, illustrate the most approved form of the improvement.

Figure 1 is aside elevation showing the punch opened. Fig. 2 is a side elevation showing the punch closed. Fig. 3 isaview in perspective of the throw-plate, and Fig. 4- is a section on the line 4 4 of Fig. 2.

The same letters of reference delete the same parts.

The punch A, saving as it is modified by the improvement, is of the customary form.

B B represent the punch-jaws, which are pivoted together by means of the screw 0, and extended to form the handles D D.

E represents the punch, which is attached to thejaw B, and is adapted to work through the throw-plate F and into the die G, which is preferably formed directly in the jaw B, substantially as represented in Fig. 2.

H represents the spring used to open the punch.

Now, as the throw-plate of aticket-punch has heretofore been constructed, it has been the practice to terminate the throw-plate and pivot its inner end to the punch at a point not so far back as the pivot upon which the punch jaws turn. To provide a simpler construction, and one whose parts can be readily separated to obtain a longer opening for the insertion of the ticket, and to provide a throwplate which shall act to better advantage in discharging the ticket, are the aims of the present construction, in which the throw-plate F, in place of being terminated as above described, is extended backward, and at its inner end is pivoted on the same pivot 0, upon which the punch jaws B B turn. The throw-plate at its outer end, f, curves downward, substantially as shown, to form a suitable guard, and at f is perforated to receive the outer end of the punch. The inner end, f, of the throw-plate is turned at right angles to the plane of the main portion f of the throw-plate, and the end terminates in an eye, which, as shown in Fig. 4, encircles the screw 0, and the jaws B B, one or both of them, are suitably shaped out at b to receive the end f between them.

I represents a ticket in position for being punched. the flat spring J yields and the punch passes through the throw-plate and ticket and into As the jaws approach each otherthe die in the ordinary manner, and whenthe v jaws are released the spring J acts .to raise the throw-plate and discharge the ticket.

It will be seen that as compared with the ordinary ticket-punch fewer parts are employed, and when it is required to detach them from each other, something not infrequently needed to be done in ticket-punches, it is only necessary to remove the screw 0, whereupon the two jaws and the throw-plate become entirely separated from each other. The throwplate at its upper end may extend downward far enough, and be shaped to hook under the lowerjaw, B, so as to prevent the throw-plate from rising too high.

I claim- 1. The combination, in a ticket-punch, of the throw-plate F, the jaws B B, the spring J, and the pivot C, said throw-plate being pivoted on said pivot O, substantially as de scribed.

2. The combination of the jaws B B, the throw-plate F, the pivot G, the handles D D, the punch E, and the springs H J, said throwplate being pivoted on the pivot O, substantially as described,

VILLIAM H. BONNELL.

\Vitnesses:

O. D. MooDY, E. B. WEIGLE. 

